He also explained what had happened to him.
Inosuke listened, dumbfounded. "I wasn't with you! When I showed up, only Tanjiro's sister was beside me. Tanjiro was gone, too, and then his sister disappeared while we were walking. I panicked and started hacking away. I didn't expect to find another courtyard after I cut through—and then another after that. That was when you showed up, but you were fakes... I just kept cutting for ages until I got here."
Tetsu no Sosuke rubbed his brow, feeling a headache coming on.
Now he felt this was more than just a Spiritual World.
This place was like Inception.
One dream layered over another, overlapping and intertwining, growing ever deeper until they reached somewhere unknowable.
All they knew was that the instant they arrived, they had all fallen into this dreamlike world. Its creator had even separated them completely, placing them in spaces on different levels. Only by breaking through the barrier around one space could they enter another.
But where, exactly, was the final destination?
And why hadn't the creator stopped Inosuke from telling them all this?
If the creator could separate them without a sound, then surely there was a way to do it again, even with all of them together.
"Could it be... because we're watching each other?"
Tetsu no Sosuke kept all three of them in sight. Since he didn't trust Shinobu Kocho, he naturally couldn't believe so easily that Zenitsu Agatsuma and Inosuke were real, either.
He watched their every move, worried that something unexpected might happen.
It made him wonder whether the creator could do anything to them while they watched one another.
After all, Shinobu Kocho had said she'd looked away from her companions, and when she looked back, they were gone.
The same was true